08 December 2012

A Roll of Linoleum

All that remains of the Nairn Flooring Company is a wall.

Morton travel to Fife to play Raith Rovers. Currently Morton sit in third place, Raith fourth. Morton need the win to keep in touch with league leaders Partick and Dunfermline. Raith need the win to keep in touch with Morton. Positive: Morton have yet to lose an away game in league play. Negative: it's got to happen sooner or later.

Celtic have made it to the final 16 of the UEFA Champions League for the third time in the past decade.

Three of five First Division matches have been postponed today owing to the pitches being "as hard as a sheet of linoleum." (Official language there.)

SPL chief Neil Doncaster has been spotted at the Raith/Morton game. And Gordon Brown.

[3 - 3. Morton goals by Rutkiewicz, O'Brien and Hardie.]

The soccer season has wrapped up in South Korea. Our guys, Pohang Steelers, finished third in the league, and won their third Korean FA Cup. They qualify for the 2013 AFC Champions League group stage. They were the fourth-highest drawing team in the league, averaging 9,696 spectators per game.

Tomorrow is the derby of the eternal enemies, between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, in Athens. [2 - 2.] Also, the Dundee derby in Dundee. Dundee FC have not won beaten Dundee United since 2004. [Tangerines win.]